Published: September 20, 2006

Joseph Kony and his deputy, Vincent Otti, the leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army, the rebel movement that has terrorized Ugandans for nearly two decades, missed the deadline yesterday to gather at an assembly point in Sudan, Ri-Kwangba, as part of a truce, mediators said. Mr. Kony and Mr. Otti are wanted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, but Ugandan officials have said they will offer them amnesty if they surrender. ''They have not assembled yet,'' said Maj. Gen. Wilson Deng Kuoirot, the head of a Sudanese monitoring team. ''They have missed the deadline, and it is going to be considered a violation on their part.'' Sixty other rebel fighters have assembled at the camp. Two days ago, the leader of the rebels' negotiating team said Mr. Kony and Mr. Otti had arrived there. Mr. Kuoirot said some 850 fighters had assembled at another Sudan location, Owiny-Ki-Bul, in the three weeks since the truce was signed.